Dallas Film Now.

Classics, revivals, and more hit the screens of our area. Below are the screenings by theater, for the next two weeks.

The Texas Theater

231 West Jefferson Blvd, Dallas TX 75208. For all showtimes, events, and tickets, visit https://thetexastheatre.com/calendar/

With the release of Spielberg’s latest film, The Texas Theater is showing some of the better films about life beyond Earth including:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) – screens on Wednesday June 17th Alien 3 (1992) – screens on Wednesday June 17th Minority Report (2002) – screens on Thursday June 18th and A.I Artificial Intelligence (2001) screens on Sunday June 21st

Drive (2011) – Nicolas Winding Refn’s stellar neo-noir about a getaway driver. Ryan Gosling has never been better, the soundtrack is propulsive, and the film is one of the best of its decade. A great chance to revisit it on the big screen.

Screens on Friday June 19th

The Tree of Life (2011) – Terence Malick’s whispy effort was filmed in parts of my hometown (Waco). Though I don’t hold it in as high a regard as many of his previous films, it’s still a wondrous thing to see in a theater.

Screens on Saturday June 20th

The Celluloid Closet (1996) – Groundbreaking documentary about the closeted history of Hollywood’s homosexual community.

Screens on Sunday June 21st

The Outing (1987) – This is why I love writing this article. Never heard of this Texas-shot horror film about a group of kids who unleash an evil djinn in a museum. Must see!

Screens on Tuesday June 23rd

Persepolis (2008) – A nice tribute to show this film with its author Marjane Satrapi pasing away earlier this week.

Screens on Wednesday June 24th

Amores Perros (2001) – Inarritu’s film has been screened alot recently and its vibrancy holds up well.

Screens on Friday June 26th

Mandy (2018) – I came to this film a few years after its release, but Panos Cosmatos’ nightmarish revenge film starring Nicolas Cage goes to some unnerving ends. Psychedelic, violent, and hard to shake, this will be a very unique theatre experience.

Screens on Saturday June 27th

Point Break (1991) – The perfect film for a June summer month finale.

Screens on Tuesday June 30th

Spacy

1300 S Polk St #160a, Dallas, TX 75224 (located inside Tyler Station). Information about the venue can be found here.

The week of June 15th-18th, the theater is running a Jackass film marathon if that’s your thing.

Black Is…. Black Ain’t (1994) -Documentarian Marlon Riggs’ final film about the ideas of racism, homosexuality and misogyny within the African-American community.

Screens on Friday June 19th

Night Owl (1993) – Sounding reminiscent of Nadja released around the same time, Night Owl tracks the adventures of a New York City vampire in grainy black and white. A curiosa from the early 90’s indie scene.

Screens on Saturday June 20th

Tally Brown, New York (1979) – Another underground documentary about the career of Tally Brown- singer, actress, Warhol-hanger-on.

Screens on Monday June 22nd

Take Off (1978) – Everything I’ve looked up about this film describes it a porn film based on a Dorian Wilde novel. Interested? Regardless, this is the perfect film for today’s rediscovery when porno chic is as hot as ever.

Screens on Tuesday June 23rd

Wildwood, NJ (1994) – God bless the American Genre Film Archive as they save and replicate so many niche, weird and invaluable nooks and crannies of independent cinema. This documentary about the titled town has received raves. I can’t wait to watch it.

Screens on Friday June 26th

Pressure (1975) -Not the new war movie, but a 1975 British production considered one of the first black films in that industry, it’s about a Trinidadian immigrant and his culture clash.

Screens on Tuesday June 30th

Magnolia at the Modern, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth, TX 76107. For all showtimes, events, and tickets, visit https://www.themodern.org/films

Miss Juneteenth (2020) – Texas-set indie film about a young mother trying to save her daughter from the same mistakes she made. Directed by Fort Worth based filmmaker Channing Godfrey Peoples.

Screens on Tuesday June 16th

Forrest Gump (1994) – Part of the My Favorite Films series and screens on Wednesday June 17th

October Sky (1999) – screens on Wednesday June 24th

DFW Alamo Drafthouse Locations

Schedule for all the locations in our area can be located here so check the site for theater availability

But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) – Several chances to see this Natasha Lyonne starring film with a watch party scheduled.

Begins screening on Wednesday June 17th

Female Trouble (1974) – One of John Waters’ early film successes. If you’ve seen it, you know its reputation!

Screens on Friday June 19th

Force Majeure (2014) – One of filmmaker Ruben Ostlund’s works of family discomfort, and probably his biggest international success to date.

Screens on Friday June 19th

I Am Not Your Negro (2016) – Tremendous documentary about James Baldwin and the Civil Rights movement by director Raoul Peck. And a word of advertisement, but his new film Orwell: 2+2=5 is streaming on Hulu.

Screens on Friday June 19th

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) – Paul Mazursky’s late 60’s satire about marital commitment. I haven’t seen this in years, and it’s one of the films being presented by actor/director Olivia Wilde in her “Selects Series”.

Screens on Saturday June 20th

Johnny Guitar (1954) – I love this film. From part of my review years ago: “The first third of “Johnny Guitar” features some of Ray’s most flawless filmmaking… and the rest ain’t that bad either. Nominally a western, “Johnny Guitar” (like so many of Ray’s films) defies easily classification and weaves a hallucinogenic trail between genre. There are so many startling aspects of “Johnny Guitar”- the soundtrack that hits a crescendo like a horror film when a group of people barge through a saloon door carrying a dead man…. The impeccable framing of a dead man sprawled out before a group of people dressed in black…. the first third that features a series of emotional and physical standoffs… and the fevered performances of Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge. The story, which really takes a backseat to all the psychological undercurrents, deals with a drifter named Johnny (Sterling Hayden) who arrives at Crawford’s saloon and becomes embroiled in a bitter emotional dispute. Like Fritz Lang’s “Rancho Notorious” released two years earlier, “Johnny Guitar” would make for a frightening double feature on how to destroy the western genre and create a brilliant hybrid.

Screens on Sunday June 21st

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984) – Spielberg mania this month!

Screens on Sunday June 21st

Imitation of Life (1959) – I admit filmmaker Douglas Sirk is a blind spot in my classic cinema viewing. This is regarded as one of his best.

Screens on Monday June 22nd and Tuesday June 23rd

Office Killer (1997) – A bit of a cult film from director Cindy Sherman, starring Carol Kane and Molly Ringwald.

Screens on Tuesday June 23rd

Field of Dreams (1988) – I admit it, I cry at this one everytime.

Screens on Tuesday June 23rd

Tango and Cash (1989) – Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone at the height of the 80’s buddy action thriller. I watched this a hundred times as a youngster.

Screens on Wednesday June 24th

Pinocchio (2022) – Guillermo del Toro’s re-imagining of the kids classic.

Screens on Friday June 26th

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) – Screens on Sunday June 28th

Talladega Nights (2006) – I don’t think anyone imagined this Will Ferrell racing comedy to endure quite like it has.

Screens on Sunday June 28th

Vengeance Is Mine (1984) – Filmmaker Michael Roemer has received a few retrospectives the last couple of years. I especially liked his Nothing But a Man (1964). This film is an oblique, but ultimately harsh look at a woman’s trauma as she goes back home to Rhode Island.

Screens on Monday June 29th

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) – Ok, my Point Break comment above, this may be the best way to close out June.

Screens on Tuesday June 30th

Dallas Angelika

5321 E. Mockingbird Ln, Dallas, TX 75206. For all showtimes, events, and tickets visit https://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/dallas

Only a couple of older films playing for the next couple weeks, both of them as part of their Miyazaki Summer:

Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind (1995) – screens on Wednesday June 19th

The Wind Rises (2013) – screens on Wednesday June 26th

Rooftop Cinema Club in Downtown Fort Worth

235 Throckmorton St. Fort Worth, TX 76102. For all showtimes and details about this unique, open-air venue visit https://rooftopcinemaclub.com/fort-worth/venue/rooftop-cinema-club-downtown-ft-worth/

The venue hosts a rotating weekly line up of recent favorites. Check out their website for titles and showtimes